The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-09-16
ABOUT OUR GARMENTS.
What Men and Women VIII Wear In
doors and Out.

doors and Out.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-Amcrican ladies'
are better dressed than all the fair femi-
ninity across the water. The secret of it
is they know how to wear their clothes.
An observer says that the particular rea-
son why American women achieve such
magnificent success abroad is that their
clothes are well made and they know how
to put them on. And this is where Eng
lish women Of all ranks and classes make
dead failures. 1t is even said that Miss
Brady, though really beautiful, would not
have been the great social figure that she
was among the English aristocracy but
for tho perfection of her toilets, which
were all from Worth. And then, the
wearing of them. No lily born to its
clothing of white beauty could be more
simply and naturally fresh.
But then, eternal vigilance Is the price
of being well dressed, faultlessly dressed.
The details of q toilet require time and
care and thought. There are ladies who
are not willing to put in their lives in
merely clothing their bodies. They can be
dressed, neither carelessly nor faultlessly,
and get ON very well and have more time
10 put in more profitably.
1t is what they call the "height of the
season" at swell watering places. New
port has been having polo matches.
There fine toilets were displayed. The
piazzas Of the club houses were crowded
with fair women in fine toilets. What
were the toilets? Some wore close fitting
tailor made costumes topped off with very
fetching" hats. Some wore white, dashed
with red in the way of ribbons and head
wear. The business of outing-it is more
of business than recreation-is doing
something toward the picturesque. The
young man in the tennis costume is
strong factor in this work. With his deli
cate and costly silk knickerbocker, broad
bright sash, and tennis racket over the
shoulder, he gives o touch of the pic
turesque to any landscape. To be sure
he is sometimes taken for court fool by
old fashioned grandmothers; but even
that possibility does not make him any
the less an object worth looking at. Rather
enhances his picturesqueness. Fools, like
the poor, we have always with us, but
court fools would be novelty In our be-
loved republic.
Cloth costumes for ladies are already
being put out by importers for early fall
wear. Smooth cloths prevail and two
colors will be used, the lighter color for
the lower skirt and vest, the darker for
the basque and drapery. Some are plain
and some have braiding on the vest and
lower skirt. Serpent green and gray
make pretty combination. When an
outdoor jacket is made with the suit it is
of the same part as the basque and
drapery. Plain and plaid cloths will be
combined for autumn gowns.
Black gowns for street wear for early
fall are often of wool, draped over skirts
of black silk. The skirt should he en-
tirely without trimming, but in pleats.
For more dressy toilets the skirts may
have stripes of color on black ground.
English women are fond Of black com
bined with colors.
Women's clothes are becoming more
mannish all the time, and it is good
thing, for that leans away from fussiness
and often foolishness. The felt hats for
travelling wear In early fall are in the
shapes fashionable for men.
NAOMI TRENT